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Re: September 24th 2005 SMART Meeting
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Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:57:13 GMT
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Last reminder of our meeting this Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everyone
there. I hope everyone's had a chance to work on a robot for Robothon, and that
many of you will have a chance to attend Robothon in two weeks.
--
David Schilling
In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> The next SMART meeting is only a bit over two weeks away. Back to our normal
> location, we'll meet at Digipen on Saturday, September 24th, at 2pm.
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> Two weeks after the meeting, on October 8-9, is Robothon (in the Centerhouse).
> Therefore the mini-challenge for the meeting is to build a robot to display or
> compete at Robothon. Here's your chance to build a demonstration robot (or more)
> that you've been wanting to do for a while, or to enter a robot competition and
> show those metal-head robot guys just how powerful LEGO can be :-) Two of the
> competition events that are particularly suited to LEGO Mindstorms robots are
> the Line Following and Walker Races. See the rules at http://www.robothon.org -
> links to the rules for these (and other) events are on the left edge of the
> screen. Note, that unlike other LEGO robot competitions, you are welcome to
> modify your LEGO, build or buy custom sensors, etc. for this event. (Only if you
> want to, of course! Don't tell anyone else on Lugnet, most of them would shudder
> at the thought of taking a drill bit or dremel tool to their precious plastic!
> Of course your modified pieces would be unusable for "unmodified LEGO"
> competitons in the future...)
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> We encourage everyone to pick one of these ideas and build a robot for it, even
> if you're not going to attend Robothon. At the meeting, besides our usual
> show-and-tell, we'll spend a few minutes discussing how each robot could be
> improved in the remaining two weeks to give it either a better chance to win, or
> to be more interesting or more robust for display robots. I hope that a lot of
> you *will* be able to attend Robothon. It's free, and a great chance to see what
> the rest of the robotic community is up to. Also, the same weekend, very nearby,
> in the North-West rooms, (also at the Seattle Center -- specifically in the
> Olympic and Rainier rooms) will be NWBrickCon.
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> I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at our meeting, and especially looking
> forward to a large number of interesting robots!
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> --
> David Schilling
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| The next SMART meeting is only a bit over two weeks away. Back to our normal location, we'll meet at Digipen on Saturday, September 24th, at 2pm. Two weeks after the meeting, on October 8-9, is Robothon (in the Centerhouse). Therefore the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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